COVID-19 update: Florida reports 46,923 cases, shattering previous record for...
Florida shattered its single-day record for newly reported COVID-19 on cases, reporting 46,923 new infections on Wednesday and pushing the 7-day average to a new record high of 29,490, according to...
View ArticlePenalty phase trial for Parkland school shooter postponed until February
Broward County Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s order says both the defense and prosecutors “need additional time to prepare their experts for trial” and would not be prepared to meet the...
View ArticleBroward School Board to propose adults-only mask policy amid the omicron surge
Masks could soon be mandatory in Broward schools next week, just not for students.
View ArticleGuilty: Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse case
Guilty: The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
View ArticleSuspected hit-and-run driver tussles with deputies in court as families mourn...
The suspected hit-and-run driver who struck a group of children, killing two, in Wilton Manors, Florida, was arrested Tuesday and appeared in court Wednesday, where he briefly scuffled with deputies....
View ArticleEarly voting in four South Florida elections starts on New Year’s Day
South Florida’s first baby of the new year will have some competition this Saturday: Someone in Broward or Palm Beach County will cast the first vote anywhere in the country in a 2022 election for...
View ArticleDeSantis is ‘blurring the lines’ using state plane for campaign-style events,...
A Florida watchdog criticized the practice as increasingly flouting the spirit of the law that separates official duties from campaigning.
View ArticleTiger shot, killed after biting arm of man near Florida zoo enclosure
A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a Malayan tiger that grabbed the arm of a man who was either feeding or petting the animal at a zoo in Naples.
View ArticleFlorida WWII veteran who was member of all-Black ‘Buffalo Soldier’ unit dies
Steve Lewis, 99, a World War II veteran who was one of the last living members of an all-Black cavalry regiment, has died in Florida. The unit had gained fame after the Civil War by patrolling the...
View ArticleFlorida’s dark money playbook: How ‘ghost’ candidate scheme revealed...
Florida's "ghost" candidate scandal has revealed tactics and dark-money strategies influencing politics throughout the state.
View ArticleHow dark money fueled Florida’s ‘ghost’ candidate scandal
"Ghost" candidates? Dark money operatives? Get insight into Florida's spoiler candidate scandal with our interactive explainer.
View ArticleCOVID-19 update: Florida sets record again with 77,848 newly reported cases;...
Florida on Thursday reported 77,848 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, one of the largest single-day increases of any state during the pandemic, as hospitalizations nearly doubled in one week, according...
View ArticleMaxwell sex-trafficking verdict bodes ill for Prince Andrew’s civil case
With the conclusion of the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case, attention will now turn to a U.S. civil suit in which the plaintiff alleges Maxwell and long-time boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein took her...
View ArticleFried alleges Florida’s health department is holding back COVID tests set to...
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried alleged Thursday that the state Department of Health is sitting on a “significant” number of stockpiled COVID-19 tests.
View ArticleOrlando theme parks draw huge New Year’s crowds amid COVID surge
Even amid a spike in COVID cases because of the omicron variant, tourists and locals packed Orlando’s theme parks as New Year’s weekend closed the holiday season.
View ArticleA special January election will decide Broward’s newest state representative....
Four candidates are competing in the Jan. 11 special election to become the newest member of the Florida House. They’re generally in sync on most major issues, but differ in life experience,...
View ArticleWhere’s Patty? A sister shares her anguish 40 years after woman disappeared...
Patty Gifford went to the Banana Boat lounge near Fort Lauderdale for a girl's night out with newfound friends on New Year's Eve in 1982. She disappeared after ringing in the new year, and a man sits...
View ArticleCOVID-19 update: Florida cases continue to climb with 75,962 reported Friday;...
Florida on Friday reported 75,962 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Here are the updated statistics on COVID-19 in Florida including new cases,...
View ArticleBroward School Board makes masks mandatory for visitors and vendors but...
Masks will be mandatory for visitors and vendors but not for staff members or students in Broward County Public Schools facilities. Broward County School Board members approved the new policy after...
View ArticleAOC slams GOP’s ‘very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday called out Republicans’ fixation upon her personal life after rightwing trolls attacked her for vacationing in Florida.
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